Getting Back in Shape: Fitness Industry's Path to COVID Recovery in 2021

Like most service industries in 2020, gym and fitness companies were severely impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.

2020 was a landmark year (for all the wrong reasons), and the fitness industry is working to find its way back in 2021 and beyond. Many challenges remain—including consumers who might stick with at-home options, broad losses in 2020, and the Delta variant—which is why traditional fitness industry operators who had relied on brick-and-mortar facilities must look to hybrid solutions.

Read Mr. Laber’s related Q&A in ThinkSet, “How the Fitness Industry Can Recover from COVID-19.”